This is my favorite dessert, and I’m positive that everyone who tastes it will agree. For the ladyfingers, you can use pound cake cut into cubes.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 3 hrs 40 mins |
| Total Time: | 4 hrs |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 9×13-inch baking dish |
Ingredients
- 6 eggs, separated
- 3 tablespoons white sugar
- 1 pound mascarpone cheese
- 2 tablespoons brandy
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups strong brewed coffee, room temperature
- 30 ladyfinger cookies
- 8 ounces finely chopped bittersweet chocolate
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat egg yolks and sugar with electric mixer until light yellow, 1 minute. Beat in mascarpone, brandy, and vanilla until smooth. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry. Fold egg whites into mascarpone mixture.
- Quickly dip ladyfingers, one at a time, in cooled coffee and arrange them in a 9×13-inch baking dish. Use 15 cookies to cover the bottom of the dish. Spread half the mascarpone mixture over the cookie crust and sprinkle the chocolate on top. Repeat the soaked cookie and cheese layers.
- Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate 4 hours or overnight before serving.
- This recipe contains raw egg. We recommend that pregnant women, young children, the elderly, and the infirm do not consume raw egg. Learn more about egg safety from our article,
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 423 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 30 g |
| Cholesterol | 202 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 10 g |
| Saturated Fat | 15 g |
| Sodium | 97 mg |
| Sugars | 12 g |
| Fat | 29 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Made with with lady fingers and also with morning coffee biscuits .. Taste great !!
This was runny. I always thought you are supposed to use sugar in egg whites to beat them until they’re stiff. The egg whites would not get stiff.
Awesome recipe! I have always loved Tiramisu and wanted to make it, but couldn’t find a recipe until I found this website. The first time I made this it took about an hour, but I made the lady fingers from scratch. With store bought or pre-made lady fingers, it takes almost no time.
I always use this recipe whenever i want to make tiramisu for a special occasion and everyone always loves it. I prefer it over the other popular recipes because it doesn’t use any whipping or heavy cream (less calories!). It turns out great every time if you do it right (I have had some failed attempts…). Tips: – Make sure to always use a new bowl without ANY traces left of the yoke mixture when you try to whip the egg whites. Otherwise, this messes up the chemistry and your whites will not turn out fluffy… thus soupy tiramisu. – Also make sure to whip your egg whites until they have stiff peaks and be very gentle when folding the two mixtures together to keep it fluffy. STOP EARLY! they don’t have to be perfectly mixed. – The coffee flavor is best if you make it extra strong espresso.. also sometimes it takes making it a few times to discover the perfect amount of soakage.
I made this for a New Years Eve get together and it was very runny after being refrigerated for well over 24 hours. It tasted good but I will not make it again unless someone can tell me why it was so runny….
all i could taste was raw eggs…
I added 3 additional tablespoonsful of sugar to the beaten egg whites, used half kahlua and half strong coffee. I also sprinkled cocoa over the first layer, and cocoa over the second (top) layer, then sprinkled mini chocolate chips over the entire dish. Looks beautiful!
I made this for a birthday at work and everyone loved it. A lot of the reviews said it was runny so I added two more egg whites and it turned out great. I also added some brandy to the coffee to dip the ladyfingers. Not sure how much, just poured it in. Next time I want to try Kahlua in the coffee. Overall, a great recipe!
It was To WATERY!!!!!
It tasted wonderful. But let me tell you, when it says electric mixer: it means it! I tried beating the eggs by hand and my tiramisu was more like a tiramisu soup…
I made this for Valentines day, turned out very good! I couldn’t find ladyfingers so I instead used Nilla Wafers, and soaked them for about 15 seconds each in the coffee, still was very yummy!
This tasted fantastic! The flavors were all there and I was asked for the recipe by several!! The only thing is the same problem as the other reviewers had. It was very watery. The coffee was a puddle in the bottom of the pan. So I’m not sure what I did wrong, but it certainly did not affect the flavor!!
I am giving this 4 stars,instead of 5, only because I think that there are some things you should know before you make this. The hardest part is the “dunking”. I did it several ways, but since there were some that got way too soggy when I served it there came a puddle of coffee.(This is MY fault). Instead of adding brandy (we do not drink, so I used an extract) (rum, as I like the tiramisu with the rum flavor) I added too little (again, MY fault), so it had a good coffee flavor, but not enough of the rum. Now, I think you should let it set for at LEAST a day for the flavors to blend. The texture (despite it being runny from the coffee)was good. Overall flavor, was good. I have read that people have toasted the ladyfingers before dunking and used a brush (I used a brush and it didn’t really penetrate the ladyfinger). I would try this again, it would hopefully turn out better the second time. It truly wasn’t hard, I just wanted to “help” out with suggestions for the dunking of the ladyfingers.
Very simple to make … the taste is great … so delicious !!!
Amazing recipe. my family just loves this recipe. I replaced the liquer for Orange blossem water or rose water gives it a dfferent mature taste. Actually it gives it a arabian style mix.
This recipe was exactly how I remembered, easy, rich and delicious! I made double espresso coffee so the flavor was on point. Thanks for the recipe. Definately a keeper.
I really loved the flavor of this but it came out very runny. I refrigerated it overnight, but it was still runny. Any tips on how to get it a little thicker?
Simple fabulous! I made it during my family gathering and my neighbors e result is they all loved it, everyone finish everything! A big Thank You for your recipe 🙂
This was a really good recipe. I read the reviews and added Kahlua for half the coffee as suggested, and it really made the dish. I also agree with using cocoa instead of the ground chocolate – that was the most time consuming part of the recipe. Other than that, the recipe was super easy and REALLY good.
I followed the recipe exactly and think next time I will try adding coffee liquor with the coffe and top it with cocoa instead of chopped choclate chips. Other wise it was very good
I love Tiramisu and tried this recipe both myself and friends loved it i put some sliced fresh strawberries and kiwi with it what a dessert!! nutty from windsor u.k